Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

A photograph offers us a glimpse into the abyss of time.

What would men be without women? Scarce, sir, mighty scarce. Mark Twain Women are an alien race set down among us.

Fiction is in danger of becoming a kind of poetry. Only other poets read it. Only other fiction writers care about it.

Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more.

Each morning my characters greet me with misty faces willing, though chilled, to muster for another day's progress through the dazzling quicksand the marsh of blank paper.

We are fated to love one another; we hardly exist outside our love, we are just animals without it, with a birth and a death and constant fear between. Our love has lifted us up , out of the dreadfulness of merely living.